I want to display images in my app, I get the urls of this images from a mysql databse. Currently it only displays the urls of the images as text
How can I download the images and display them in the listview?
/**
* Retrieves recent post data from the server.
*/
public void updateJSONdata() {
// Instantiate the arraylist to contain all the JSON data.
// we are going to use a bunch of key-value pairs, referring
// to the json element name, and the content, for example,
// message it the tag, and "I'm awesome" as the content..
mCommentList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
// Bro, it's time to power up the J parser
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
// Feed the beast our comments url, and it spits us
//back a JSON object. Boo-yeah Jerome.
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(READ_COMMENTS_URL);
//when parsing JSON stuff, we should probably
//try to catch any exceptions:
try {
//I know I said we would check if "Posts were Avail." (success==1)
//before we tried to read the individual posts, but I lied...
//mComments will tell us how many "posts" or comments are
//available
mComments = json.getJSONArray(TAG_POSTS);
// looping through all posts according to the json object returned
for (int i = 0; i < mComments.length(); i++) {
JSONObject c = mComments.getJSONObject(i);
//gets the content of each tag
String title = c.getString(TAG_TITLE);
String content = c.getString(TAG_MESSAGE);
String username = c.getString(TAG_USERNAME);
String url = c.getString(TAG_URL);
// creating new HashMap
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put(TAG_TITLE, title);
map.put(TAG_MESSAGE, content);
map.put(TAG_USERNAME, username);
map.put(TAG_URL, url);
// adding HashList to ArrayList
mCommentList.add(map);
//annndddd, our JSON data is up to date same with our array list
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Inserts the parsed data into the listview.
*/
private void updateList() {
// For a ListActivity we need to set the List Adapter, and in order to do
//that, we need to create a ListAdapter. This SimpleAdapter,
//will utilize our updated Hashmapped ArrayList,
//use our single_post xml template for each item in our list,
//and place the appropriate info from the list to the
//correct GUI id. Order is important here.
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, mCommentList,
R.layout.single_post, new String[] { TAG_TITLE, TAG_MESSAGE,
TAG_USERNAME, TAG_URL }, new int[] { R.id.title, R.id.message,
R.id.username, R.id.url });
// I shouldn't have to comment on this one:
setListAdapter(adapter);
// Optional: when the user clicks a list item we
//could do something. However, we will choose
//to do nothing...
ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
// This method is triggered if an item is click within our
// list. For our example we won't be using this, but
// it is useful to know in real life applications.
}
});
EDIT: JSONParser.java
package com.test.mysqltest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.util.Log;
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(final String url) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// Construct the client and the HTTP request.
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
// Execute the POST request and store the response locally.
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
// Extract data from the response.
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
// Open an inputStream with the data content.
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
// Create a BufferedReader to parse through the inputStream.
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
// Declare a string builder to help with the parsing.
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// Declare a string to store the JSON object data in string form.
String line = null;
// Build the string until null.
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
// Close the input stream.
is.close();
// Convert the string builder data to an actual string.
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// Try to parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// Return the JSON Object.
return jObj;
}
// function get json from url
// by making HTTP POST or GET mehtod
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// check for request method
if(method == "POST"){
// request method is POST
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}else if(method == "GET"){
// request method is GET
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
url += "?" + paramString;
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}
